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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Thursday, July 23, 2015 :DVKLQJWRQZLOG¿UHKXPDQFDXVHG Kulongoski also used private email account Associated Press :$//$ :$//$ :DVK ² 2I¿FLDOV VD\ D ZLOG¿UH WKDW KDV EXUQHG RQH KRPH and torched nearly six square miles in southeastern Washington was likely human- caused. Fire spokeswoman Sarah Foster says the FDXVHLVXQGHULQYHVWLJDWLRQWKRXJKRI¿FLDOV determined lightning was not the cause. $ERXW ¿UH¿JKWHUV RQ :HGQHVGD\ DUH DWWDFNLQJ WKH ¿UH IURP WKH JURXQG DQG air. Foster says they’re using a lot of air resources, including eight helicopters and WZRDLUWDQNHUVWRFRROWKH¿UHGRZQVRWKDW ground crews can establish lines around the perimeter. 7KH ¿UH ZDV ]HUR SHUFHQW FRQWDLQHG DV RI :HGQHVGD\ PRUQLQJ DQG ¿UH RI¿FLDOV are concerned about extremely hot and dry conditions. $IWHU PDSSLQJ WKH ¿UH RQ 7XHVGD\ HYHQLQJ RI¿FLDOV VD\ LW KDV EXUQHG DERXW 3,800 acres, smaller than initially estimated. It’s burning a mix of grass, shrubs and timber about nine miles east of Walla Walla near Blue Creek and Klicker Mountain. 7KH FRVW RI ¿JKWLQJ ODUJH ZLOG¿UHV LQ Washington state has hit nearly $35 million VR IDU WKLV \HDU DV ODUJH ZLOG¿UHV KDYH scorched brush, grass and timber. The Northwest Interagency Coordination &HQWHUVD\VWKRVHODUJHEOD]HVKDYHEXUQHG nearly 130 square miles, or about 81,500 DFUHV$ODUJH¿UHEXUQVDWOHDVWDFUHVLQ timber or 300 acres in grass or brush. KING-TV reports that there have also EHHQ PRUH WKDQ VPDOO ZLOG¿UHV through July 21. During the same period last year, 24 large ZLOG¿UHVEXUQHGDERXWVTXDUHPLOHVRU DERXW DFUHV )LUH RI¿FLDOV VD\ ODVW Greg Lehman/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP \HDULQFOXGHGWKH&DUOWRQ&RPSOH[¿UHWKH A firefighting helicopter, one of eight, dips water from Bennington largest in state history. Lake east of Walla Walla, Wash., Tuesday afternoon. Kulongoski did not respond to a request for comment. Green said the Oregon SALEM — John .LW]KDEHU ZDVQ¶W WKH ¿UVW Department of Adminis- governor to use private trative Services approved email accounts to handle Kulongoski’s use of a Gmail account so that he state business. .LW]KDEHU¶V XVH RI WKH could send and receive private accounts attracted emails when he was not in attention earlier this year, WKH RI¿FH VRPHWKLQJ WKDW was not possible when a staffer with state email asked state accounts when technology Kulongoski took employees to RI¿FHLQ delete thousands There was of his personal no indication emails that had Kulongoski used been copied onto the private email state computer account as a back servers. However, channel to avoid it was his prede- Kulongoski public access to cessor’s use of a the correspon- Gmail account WKDWOHGDUFKLYHVRI¿FLDOVWR dence. Anna Richter Taylor, ask for a system that would who was a policy adviser communications retain material from all of and director for Kulongoski, .LW]KDEHU¶VDFFRXQWV Former Gov. Ted Kulon- said the governor used the goski used a Gmail account Gmail account “primarily as his primary professional for personal use, not state email and unlike in business.” Richter Taylor .LW]KDEHU¶V FDVH VWDWH also said employees in the employees do not know Kulongoski administration whether they have copies of were expected to use their state email accounts and all of Kulongoski’s emails. Archivists at the if they had to use private Oregon Secretary of accounts while traveling 6WDWH¶V RI¿FH GLVFRYHUHG or in other situations, they Kulongoski’s use of the were supposed to forward Gmail account when they that correspondence to their received correspondence state accounts so it would be between his administration archived. The Oregonian recently staffers’ government email accounts, and Kulongoski’s UHSRUWHGWKDW.LW]KDEHUDQG private account after he left his chief of staff used private RI¿FH 6HFUHWDU\ RI 6WDWH email accounts to discuss the spokesman Tony Green UROHWKHJRYHUQRU¶V¿DQFpH said archivists do not know Cylvia Hayes, should have how much of Kulongoski’s in the administration. As a professional correspon- result, state records did not dence might be missing include a memorandum in ZKLFK .LW]KDEHU DGGUHVVHG from the state archive. “The (Kulongoski) the overlap between Hayes’ account was closed so we state policy and paid don’t know what, if any, contracting work. Amy Williams, a emails were lost,” Green spokeswoman for the wrote in an email. Under Oregon law, the Department of Administra- historical records of the tive Services, said the state governor, secretary of state acquired the capability in and state treasurer belong 2010 to copy emails from to the state and must be private email accounts such as Kulongoski’s. transferred to the archives. By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau (DUWKTXDNHSUHSDUHGQHVVNLWVÀ\LQJRIIWKHVKHOYHV The information wasn’t exactly new, but people got scared. And suddenly two-thirds of the orders were coming SEATTLE — We’ll see how long from this state, not California, as they this scaredy boomlet lasts. It began last usually do. American Preparedness, which week. “Holy cow!” Steve O’Donnell RSHUDWHV LQ UHQWDO RI¿FH VSDFH DW D remembers thinking, as he checked the Public Storage building, typically sells online orders at the Burien headquarters “several hundred” of the kits a month, says O’Donnell, the CEO. of American Preparedness. With survivalist outlets and others Sales were going through the roof. If you go on the websites of Costco, selling similar kits, the local company 6WDSOHV RU $PD]RQ \RX¶OO VHH WKH LVQ¶W NHHQ RQ GLYXOJLQJ VSHFL¿F small, eight-person company’s earth- numbers. Still, says O’Donnell, last Monday, quake-preparedness kits for sale. For $179.99, you can get a 2-person, 7-day “We did over a month’s business.” And this week, the orders keep arriving. kit. As far as survival supplies, sure, you This boomlet began with an article in The New Yorker that quickly went viral. can make your own earthquake kit. The The headline was, “The really big Centers for Disease Control has tips; so one.” It was followed by, “An earth- does FEMA and the city of Seattle. The city recommends having enough TXDNHZLOOGHVWUR\DVL]DEOHSRUWLRQRI the coastal Northwest. The question is supplies to last a week to 10 days. How hard is it to buy some canned when.” By ERIK LACITIS The Seattle Times beans, a bunch of water bottles, some crackers? It’s a bit more than that. And are you really going to set aside all those hours to put together water bottles, canned food, meal bars, emer- gency blankets, ponchos, light sticks, batteries, a portable radio, whistles, multifunction knives, matches, leather gloves, rope, a pry bar, trash bags and ¿UVWDLGNLWV"7KDW¶VMXVWWKHEHJLQQLQJ “Hey, they never do. It’s procrasti- nation. It’s why I don’t like to clean the garage, either,” says Jeff Guite, who founded American Preparedness back in 1981. Only a quarter of Seattleites are putting together an earthquake kit and building a family plan, says Barb Graff, director of emergency management for WKH FLW\ 7KDW¶V IURP D MXVWFRPSOHWHG city survey. Which, of course, means that three-quarters of us are not particularly responsible. 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